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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Curriculum referenced tests
Chall's Stage 2
Adolf Kusmaul
2. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Three Layers of Language
Macron
Age equivalent
Affix
3. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Raw score
V >
Texas Education Code 38.003
Chall's Stage 5
4. Whole body learning
VV
Whole Language
Chall's Stage 0
Kinesthetic
5. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Phonological Awareness
Fluency
Adolf Kusmaul
Suffix
6. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Six basic types of syllables
Diagnostic Teaching
Standard Scores
Chall's Stage 0
7. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Direct Instruction
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Reading Comprehension Support
8. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Kinesthetic
Multi-Sensory Approach
Diphthong
Joe Torgesen
9. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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10. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Phonology
Simultaneous teaching
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Towre
11. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Chall's Stage 2
Simultaneous teaching
Macron
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
12. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Tilde
Analytic
Consonant Digraph
Simultaneous teaching
13. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Auditory Learners
Accommodation
Breve
Consonant
14. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
VC
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Standard deviation
15. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Accuracy
Attention
Base Word
Morpheme
16. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Joe Torgesen
Auditory Processing
Mathew Effect
Prefix
17. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Reliability
Achievement test
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Phonics
18. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Joe Torgesen
Percentile/ percentile rank
Middle English
Top-down Reading Approach
19. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Joe Torgesen
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonemic/ decodable words
20. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Phonics
Suffix
Impulsivity
Curriculum referenced tests
21. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Accommodation
Chall's Stage 3
Curriculum referenced tests
Multisensory
22. Feeling through fingertips
Comprehension
Direct Instruction
RTI
Tactile
23. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Anna Gillingham
Grapheme
Receptive language
VV
24. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Chall's Stage 4
Mastery level
Academic Achievement Tests
VC
25. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Academic Achievement Tests
Texas Education Code 38.003
Frank Smith
Criterion referenced tests
26. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Chall's Stage 3
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Grade equivalents
Norm-referenced tests
27. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Ability
Adolf Kusmaul
28. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Norm-Referenced Test
Derived Score
Dyslexia
The Norman Conquest
29. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Modification
Raw score
Vowel
Chall's Stage 2
30. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Latin layer of language
Closed Syllable
ALTA
Auditory Processing
31. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Social language
Phoneme
Ability
Standard deviation
32. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Criterion referenced tests
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Oral Language
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
33. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Digraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Fluency
Standardized test
34. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Phonological Awareness
Chall's Stage 2
Old English
Samuel T. Orton
35. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Base Word
Prefix
Norm-referenced tests
36. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Multisensory
Percentile
Phonology
Reliability
37. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
SBOE
Phonics
Phonology
38. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Cognitive Assessment
Standard score
WRAT
ALTA
39. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Criterion-Referenced Test
CTOPP
Social language
Phonological Awareness
40. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Digraph
Receptive language
VV
Direct Instruction
41. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Standard Scores
Norm-referenced tests
Criterion referenced tests
Anglo Saxon
42. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Auditory Learners
Macron
Diphthong
Prefix
43. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Whole Language
Phonological Awareness
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Sight Words
44. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Cognition
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Anglo Saxon
Visual Learners
45. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Phonology
IMSLEC
Auditory Processing
46. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Affix
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Trigraph
47. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Chall's Stage 2
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Analytic
Matthew Effect
48. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Accommodation
Anna Gillingham
Six basic types of syllables
49. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Adolf Kusmaul
50. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
V-e
Phonemic Awareness
Diphthong
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504